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seldo on Aug 10, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bit.ly Swoops in to Save Tr.im

Oh, and re: the idea of internal URL shorteners, Google's suggestion for rel=canonical

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-y...

is a way to allow those to exist without destroying your pagerank. However, I'm not seeing them too widely implemented yet.

mseebach on Aug 10, 2009 [–]

I'd think a 301 Moved Permanently is more appropriate - and also how many URL shorteners work today.

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